River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-22

been created along the Inns, Youngs and
Medbery. The building of elevators and
depots will commence Soon.
Fire got into the grain field of Gust
Anderson, 5 miles from Hallock, Mimi,
burning large stacks, extending to the
eighty acres of Il. ID. Erickson, with grain
IN shock, thence to the farm of Carl
Wllrlcks, burning loaded grain wagons
a $500 span Of mules and several hundred
bushels of wheat.
Amos i. Bennett, who settled at
Watertown, Wis, forty years ago, died of
bronchitis, aged sixty-seven years. De-
ceased he'd the position of chief carpenter
Tor Lne Chicago, Milwaukee a st. Paul
rohfo"n Tor the past twenty years, and
was one of the best known of the company's
employees
Near Princeton, Mimi, young
man named Pierson was accidently shot
while hunting. His companion raised his
| gun TO shoot a duck and, on lowering it,
with his finger on the trigger. it was dis
charged and the contents passed through
the abdomen of Pierson. He lived ten
| hours.
Barton Hal, one of the finest country
places near Sioux City, Iowa, was
burglarized of about $400 worth of silver.
several sealskin sacques ana other valuable
articles An employe on the place is
suspected.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission began its session at Minneapolis on
the 18th. Prominent business men from
| Omaha, Kansas City, Lincoln, Neb., and
from various points IN Minnesota were in
attendance.
At Winona, Mimi, two barns and IA
| CHI
burned with the contents consisting of n
lot of seconds goods Loss, $500; in
sured for $3.50 The origin of the fire is an
| known.
All the testimony in the Haddock
case at Sioux City, Iowa, on behalf of the
State has been put, and it is said that it
does not vary in any material point from
the testimony in the Arnesdorf trial
AT Sioux Falls. OAK, Mrs. J. b.
Warren, bride of two weeks, was thrown
from buggy. Both of her legs were
broken and she was otherwise injured. She
is i'll very precarious condition.
Near Butte, OAK, the barns and
sheds, with calves and chickens, ! 500 bush
els of oats, 1000 tons of hay, 90 loads OF
stacked hay, on the Pleasant View farm
| were burned. Loss 8, 500.
AT the Des Moines, Iowa, NJ. Z. Con-
ference, Rev. Frank C. Haddock, son of the
Rev. George g. Haddock, who was assassin
ated at Sioux City, was unanimously ad-
mitted TO the conference.
Mrs. Anton Tiezler, wife of Mime
apolis saloon keeper committed suicide, the
result of dependency because her husband
had ceased to love her. She was 43 years
of age.
Rosie Kozell, reported missing from
Redfeld, Oak, and dead at Britton, is alive
and well and at her parents in Hyde county
She is SAID to be preparing to be married.
Forest fires have done much damage
in Grow Wing county, MINI. At Long
Lake 300 tons of hay burned, near Crow
Wing $50 tons of hay, timber, fences, etc.
Co. K, of Duluth, of the Minnesota
second regiment national guards will
probably attend the international encamp
ment at Chicago Oct. 3.
Rev. DavidJ. Burrell, of Dubuque
Iowa, has been called to the passionate of
the Westminster Presbyterian Church at
Minneapolis, Mimi.
"A German, aged 40, at work upon
the streets at Winona, was caught under a
landslide and killed. He leaves wife and
seven children.
Oscar p. Kemp of WATERFOWL, Oak.
has been appointed member of the Board
of Directors of the Brookings Agricultural
College.
VIM. Rely, aged %, was arrested at
Beardsley, Mimi, and held with bail for
assaulting a widow. He narrowly escaped
lynchiug.
The store of o. c. Foster of Brainerd
Mimi, was burglarized and the safe forced
open, but only $40 was obtained.
There were twenty-five hundred
entries at the Southern Minnesota Fair at
Rochester, MINI.
Lowis' opera house, at Ottumwa,
Iowa, burned with the loss of $4,000, in
surance $1,000.
Several stores and business places
have been burglarized at Little Falls,
Mimi.